John Bernard (MP for Northampton)

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Sir John Bernard (23 August 1604 – 5 March 1674) of Abington Park, Northamptonshire was an English landowner and briefly a Member of Parliament.

Biography

The eldest son of Baldwin Bernard of Abington, Northamptonshire, he succeeded his father in 1610.

He was knighted on 24 September 1661, and on 31 March 1664 he was elected Member of Parliament for Northampton, but was unseated on 26 April in favour of Sir Henry Yelverton.

In 1669 he sold Abington Park, having previously extended it, to William Thursby, a future MP for Northampton. He died in 1674.

He had married firstly Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Clement Edmondes; they had four sons, who all predeceased him, and four daughters. His second wife, Elizabeth, was daughter of John and Susanna Hall and granddaughter (and only surviving descendant) of William Shakespeare. They had no children.

References

^ John. P. Ferris, BERNARD, Sir John (1604-74), of Abington, Northants. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690 (1983).
William A. Shaw, The Knights of England (London, 1906) vol. II, p. 235.

William Shakespeare's family tree

Direct ascendants and descendants of William Shakespeare are shown with a blue background Shakespeare's siblings are shown with a red background Anne Hathaway and ascendants are shown with a yellow background People related to Shakespeare only through marriage are shown with a green background Relations whose identity is not known are shown with a dashed border

Years given are usually approximate and typically reflect baptismal and burial years, rather than birth and death.

For remarriages, the number in parentheses after the name indicates the order of the marriages.

Richard
Shakespeare
(1490–before 1561)

(unknown)

Robert
Arden
(died 1556)

John
Shakespeare
(c. 1531–1601)

Mary
Arden
(c. 1537–1608)

(unknown) (1)

Richard
Hathaway
(–1581)

Joan
Hathaway (2)
(–1599)

Joan
(1558–1558)

Margaret
(1562–1563)

Gilbert
Shakespeare
(1566–1612)

Joan
Shakespeare
(1569–1646)

William
Shakespeare
(1564–1616)

Anne
Hathaway
(1555–1623)

Anne
(1571–1579)

Richard
(1574–1613)

Edmund
Shakespeare
(1580–1607)

John
Hall
(1575–1635)

Susanna
Hall
(1583–1649)

Judith
Quiney
(1585–1662)

Thomas
Quiney
(1589–1662)

Hamnet
Shakespeare
(1585–1596)

Thomas
Nash (1)
(1593–1647)

Elisabeth
Barnard
(1608–1670)

John
Barnard (2)
(1604–1674)

Shakespeare
Quiney
(1616–1617)

Richard
Quiney
(1618–1639)

Thomas
Quiney
(1620–1639)

Sources

Chambers, E. K. (1930). William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. Vol. I 11–12, 18, Vol. II 8–9. OCLC 353406.
Schoenbaum, S. (1977). William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 292. ISBN 0195051610.

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